Trinidad and Tobago's Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi
The Trinidad and Tobago Senate on Tuesday night approved legislation that gives the public the right to access a sex offender website providing names, photographs and date of birth of convicted persons.
The Sexual Offences Amendment was passed with none of the legislators voting against it.
Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi, who piloted the bill, said it is intended to create two registers: the National Sex Offender Register, which would be private and for the use of law enforcement only, and the Public Sex Offender Website, which would be accessible by the public.
The website would be under the control of the Commissioner of Police.
Mr. Al-Rawi said convicted people would have their names added to the public register unless they appealed to the court not to do so for a valid reason, such as in the case of incest.
He said granting this appeal would be at the discretion of the courts.
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